/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14541217
It is the metal of the gods.

>>14541217
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_physics

>>14541217
If human eyes were a little different, we'd oogle over a different metal for its its sneed color.

>>14541217
Relativistic effects on the outer electron orbitals affect its absorption spectrum.

>>14541229
gold has attractive properties other than "it looks nice xD" retard

I don't like gold. It looks like piss.

>>14541217
That's how the electrons be. Everything is electrons. The rest of the atom just gives the electrons a place to orbit.

I hate p chem so much its unreal

>>14541231
>Relativistic effects on the outer electron orbitals affect its absorption spectrum.
the electrons exist in a superposition until measured retard.

>>14543175
ask me how i know you dont understand quantum mechanics

>>14543180
>ask me how i know you dont understand quantum mechanics
if the outer electron was accelerating it would radiate. It's existing in a superposition not orbiting around.

>>14543192
he didnt say they were orbiting, he just called them orbitals, because thats the name that everyone agreed to call them.

>>14543204
>he didnt say they were orbiting
electrons in a superposition don't have a velocity, therefore applying relativity to them is retarded.

>>14541231
Isn't it usually the inner orbitals that have relativistic effects around heavy nuclei?

>>14543192
>if the outer electron was accelerating it would radiate

>>14543217
This isn't an argument.

>>14543214
>Isn't it usually the inner orbitals that have relativistic effects around heavy nuclei?
we Bohr up in here?

>>14541256
This thread is literally about its color, fa.m

>>14543175
>until measured retard.
Well, you -are- looking at it no?

>>14543301

I think his wider point was that its the properties of gold that eventually made us desire the color so much

>>14543303
>Well, you -are- looking at it no?
your claim is that by looking at gold I am measuring the velocities of the electrons and collapsing the wave functions?

>>14543175
Electromagnetism is relativistic effects from the perspective of electrons. You don't need a human to 'measure' it.

>>14541217
it contains copper

>>14543175
>the electrons exist in a superposition until measured retard.
Are we being invaded by /k/ again?
https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/golden_glow/

>>14541222
>>14541217
solid sunlight

>>14543396
It bring shiny helps a fuckton when seen on the ground.

>>14541217
>nearly all other metals
heh, copper?

>>14543396
>>14541256
>the ancients valued gold for its conductive properties
It was 'shiny metal pretty' and it just happened to have some use after millenia of being valued anyway.

>>14544040
kek